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Digging deep for capitalism

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:51:20 -0500

Mining and particularly the mining of precious metals is one of the most environmentally destructive industries. For example mining operations for gold and other precious metals often use sodium cyanide (as in the stuff you poison people with!) to extract the metal from the ore. Not surprisingly the cyanide can and very often does leak into the ground and the local water supply with disastrous consequences. This is just one case, the mining and metal production industries can affect the environment in countless ways. The waste created by the metal smelting can equally be a source of poll...

Have you ever heard of Abya Yala?

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:34:00 -0400

Who is it? What is it? Where is it? What does it mean? You may have never heard of it. But if you live in the US, Canada or any other country in the western hemisphere that is where you live. Abya Yala means â€œland in its full maturityâ€ in the language of the Kuna people of Colombia and Panama. It was Takir Mamani an indigenous Aymara leader who first suggested that Abya Yala should be used in place of America by the indigenous peoples of the western hemisphere. It may have been invented by European colonisers but the word America has itself become even further debased over the centur...